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Mary Van Note

Gavin Really Wants Me is on IFC.com RIGHT NOW!

About Me

You can learn more about Mary Van Note here: www.maryvannote.com
Read her comics blog: www.maryvannote.com/blog
Mary Van Note is also on Facebook.
A trailer for The Mary Van Note Show on IFC.COM !!!!!
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Watch Episode 1:
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My videos are located on:
Check out Mary Van Note's variety and chat show Comedy, Darling .

I also perform occasionally with 5 Funny Females .
I write zines.
"Thematic, Simple, Poignant, Containing Intent, and in this case, funny. The stuff good zines are made of." -Dean Haakenson of Be Brave Bold Robot

Copies are available at maryvannote.com : zines , zine-inspired T Shirts and Totes.
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My Interests

My story "Basic" has been published in Spork, a literary magazine based in Tucson and guest edited by the great Kevin Sampsell.
The entire mag is on the web.
You can buy a beautiful hardcopy through Spork’s website and support small presses.

I'd like to meet:

GAVIN NEWSOM.

Music:

James Brown. Serge Gainsbourg. Talking Heads. France Gall. Ennio Morricone. Absolutely anything Mike Patton is involved in. Devendra Banhart. Mum. Billie Holiday. Radiohead. Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The Shins. Death Cab for Cutie. Marc Ribot. Pixies. Bjork. Sigur Ros. Hanne Hukkelberg. Marvin Gaye. Tom Waits. John Zorn. B-52s. Buddy Holly. M.I.A. Interpol. Aphex Twin. Weezer. Jeff Buckley. SCOTS. Joanna Newsom. Ween. Le Tigre. Nirvana. Yves Montand. Royal Trux. Johnny Cash. Clap your hands say yeah. Uni and her Ukelele. G/L/A/S/S/C/A/N/D/Y. Spoon. Otis Redding. And more, more, more... Rock, Blues, Funk and Old Timey!

Movies:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Dr. Strangelove. Amelie. Lost in Translation. City of God. Vertigo. Better Off Dead. The Marx Brothers, the Coen brothers, and Woody Allen. Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch, David Cronenberg. Brokeback Mountain. Rushmore. This is Spinal Tap. Batman Begins. American Ninja!

Books:

A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews. Drown by Junot Diaz. Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson. A Common Pornography by Kevin Sampsell. Blankets by Craig Thompson. Cry Yourself to Sleep by Jeremy Tinder. Small Favors by Colleen Coover. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. 1984 by George Orwell. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
Some other favorite authors: Chuck Palahniuk, Gary Lutz, Craig Clevenger, Bret Easton Ellis, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thom Jones, Jim Thompson, Daniel Clowes, Amy Hempel, Javier Marias, and Bucky Sinister.

Heroes:

Anyone who inspires me: Grandma, Andy Kaufman, Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, Pee Wee Herman, Banksy , Spalding Gray, David Elsewhere , Miranda July, Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black, David Wain, Louis CK, Patton Oswalt, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Lenny Bruce, The Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Judy Tenuta, Maria Bamford, Flight of the Conchords , Arj Barker, Neil Hamburger, Rowan Atkinson, Kristen Schaal, Steve Martin, Brent Weinbach, Josh Fadem.

My Blog

MARIAH CAREY

Look what you've done to our CHILDREN!   ...
Posted by Mary Van Note on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:33:00 PST

5 Funny Females This WEEKEND!!!

Hello,Good morning. I wanted to update you to make your reservations for this weekend's 5 Funny Females Shows at Purple Onion in San Francisco. Tomake reservations just email reservations@5funnyfemale...
Posted by Mary Van Note on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:25:00 PST

30 minute set at the Poleng Lounge 9.23.08

Mary Van Note (30 minute set) with Caitlin Gill, Shaun Landry and Tony Sparks www.BayLuv.com presents: RAW Comedy NightTuesday September 23rd7:30PM@ The Poleng Lounge.1751 Fulton st, San Francisco, Ca...
Posted by Mary Van Note on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:39:00 PST

performing in Napa 9/14

Mary Van Note will be performing in Napa on Sunday, September 14. 9:30pm Downtown Joe's 902 Main St. ...
Posted by Mary Van Note on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:53:00 PST

comics blog

Do y'all know that I have a blog on my website now? It's located here: http://www.maryvannote.com/blog What I post there (and what I don't post here) are my drawings!  My little wanna-be comic st...
Posted by Mary Van Note on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:46:00 PST

EAT, EAT and Shoppa Nova

Last weekend I went to the Peaches Christ's Midnight Mass: The Underground Short Film Festival. My friends in the sketch comedy group BOOMTIME (www.myspace.com/boomtimesf) had two of their films scree...
Posted by Mary Van Note on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:23:00 PST

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

Really interesting article dissecting the "hipster." http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html We are a lost generation, desperately clinging to anything that feels real, but too afraid to bec...
Posted by Mary Van Note on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:59:00 PST

Episode 10: Cheese Party!

All 10 episodes of my web series Gavin Really Wants Me is up on www.IFC.com. Here's episode 10... .. Episode 10: Cheese Party! ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:off...
Posted by Mary Van Note on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:26:00 PST

Episode 9: Cocaine

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Posted by Mary Van Note on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:58:00 PST

Episode 8: Vacation

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Posted by Mary Van Note on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:31:00 PST